Warren Calls on Barr to ‘Resign or Face Impeachment’ over Intervention in Roger Stone

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Warren Calls on Barr to ‘Resign or Face Impeachment’ over Intervention in Roger Stone Case
By: Mairead Mcardle - National Review 02-12-20
Re: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/...er-stone-case/

Well Trump's at it again - trying to save his pal Stone from his court ruled 7-9 years in prison.

This alone is a conflict of interest and stepping over the line of a formal court ruling.

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren called on Wednesday for Attorney General William Barr to “resign or face impeachment” after the Justice Department pushed back on prosecutors’ “excessive” sentencing recommendation for President Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone.

“Congress must act immediately to rein in our lawless Attorney General,” the Massachusetts senator wrote in a tweet. “Barr should resign or face impeachment.”

Warren also demanded that Congress use its funding powers to constrain the attorney general’s ability to interfere with “anything that affects Trump, his friends, or his elections.”

After President Trump complained Tuesday on Twitter that the prosecutors seven-to-nine-year sentencing recommendation constituted a “horrible and very unfair situation,” his Justice Department submitted a revised filing stating that the prosecutors’ recommended lengthy sentence “could be considered excessive and unwarranted.”

Stone was convicted of lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing the House’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia. All four of the prosecutors who recommended Stone’s seven to nine year sentence either resigned or quit the case after the DOJ weighed in.

“He’s the chief law enforcement officer. He has the right to do it. He just didn’t,” said Hogan Gidley, the White House principal deputy press secretary, saying Trump “did not interfere here with anything.”

Trump congratulated Barr later in the day for “taking charge of a case that was totally out of control and perhaps should not have even been brought.”

Warren noted that she has called for an independent Justice Department task force to investigate alleged crimes by Trump administration officials and called on all other Democratic candidates to commit to doing the same, “so Trump officials know they will be held accountable by career prosecutors once he is out of office.”

“Abusing official power to protect political friends and attack opponents is common in authoritarian regimes like Putin’s Russia,” Warren said. “Trump and Barr’s conduct has no place in our democracy. To end it, Congress must act—and the American people must hold them accountable in November.”

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Personal note: This is truly stepping over the line - an open to impeachment once again.
Stone is guilty as sin and needs to be punished. What Trump is doing is digging a ditch of which he doesn't want to get into. Stone knows much about Trump and Trump knows this and he's doing his best to keep Stone from flipping on Trump for a lessor sentence. Once again this is a democracy not an authoritarian monarch system of government. It's truly disgusting to see Trump pulling his weight on Federal Court Judgement's - and could be crime and once again impeachment.

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